Exclusive study : 2016 barometer of muslim first names given to french newborn babies
The INSEE institute (the French national institute for statistical research), just published the official statistics related to the names given to french newborn babies since 1900, like it does every year.
A quick analysis made by the French website, Fdesouche, revealed the major trends about newborn Muslim babies in France:
More than 20% of newborn babies were found to have a muslim name, or 1/5.
The rate for Muslim names was 6.54% 20 years ago, back in 1997.
In the Paris region, Muslim names represented 32% of names attributed to newborns (almost one baby out of 3).
Only 10 départements out of 101 (administrative division, French equivalent of English or...